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A new Texas law that would restrict abortions<\/a>\u00a0once a preborn child’s heartbeat is detected is poised to take effect this week, but the abortion industry is making\u00a0last-minute efforts to stall the legislation, including an emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case. Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, the law \u2014 considered to be the nation’s most effective anti-abortion legislation \u2014 will take effect on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Texas Heartbeat Act<\/a> was signed by Governor Greg Abbott in May and is set to take effect on September 1. It will restrict all elective abortions after a detectable heartbeat, which occurs as early as six weeks. The law is unique in that it allows private citizens to file lawsuits against someone implicit in committing an abortion, including the doctor who performs it or the person who pays for it.<\/p>\n

As expected, abortion activists in the state were quick to pursue legal action<\/a> to prohibit the law from taking effect. According to CNN<\/a>, a district court initially scheduled a hearing for Monday to review the case after a lawsuit by the abortion industry. The Texas Tribune<\/a> reports that more than 20 abortion providers hoped to persuade the courts to block the law during the hearing, but that hearing was canceled on Friday night by the\u00a0Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Abortion activist sues Texas Right to Life in effort to stop heartbeat law<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seeing no other way to prohibit the law from taking effect, abortion proponents filed the emergency appeal with SCOTUS, claiming that the law will\u00a0“immediately and catastrophically reduce abortion access in Texas.” It’s a move Texas Right to Life<\/a> is calling pro-abortion groups’ “last, desperate option to try (to) block the law.”<\/p>\n

“In less than two days, Texas politicians will have effectively overturned Roe v. Wade,\u201d Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement<\/a> Monday. \u201cWe have filed an emergency motion in the Supreme Court to block this law before clinics are forced to turn patients away. Patients will have to travel out of state \u2013 in the middle of a pandemic \u2013 to receive constitutionally guaranteed healthcare. And many will not have the means to do so. It\u2019s cruel, unconscionable, and unlawful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite these efforts by abortion proponents, Kim Schwartz of Texas Right to Life is confident that the law will go into effect.\u00a0\u201cThe Texas Heartbeat Act is the strongest pro-life legislation to pass the Texas Legislature since Roe v. Wade,\u201d she said in an interview with The Texas Tribune<\/a>. \u201cThis is a huge victory and could save thousands upon thousands of preborn babies. We look forward to the day that it\u2019s going to be enforced \u2014 hopefully very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This post has been updated since its original publication.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A new Texas law that would restrict abortions\u00a0once a preborn child’s heartbeat is detected is poised to take effect this week, but the abortion industry is making\u00a0last-minute efforts to stall the legislation, including an emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case. 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